Re: [PATCH] Drop second arg of unregister_chrdev()

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Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> > * "name" is trivially unused.
> > * Requirement to pass to unregister function anything but cookie you've
> >   got from register counterpart is wrong.
>
> Might this, instead, be an opportunity to get rid of the internal
> register_chrdev() and unregister_chrdev() calls in favor of the cdev
> interface?  register_chrdev() is a bit of a backward-compatibility hack
> at this point, and cdevs, in theory, are safer since they won't present
> drivers with minor numbers they might not be prepared to handle.

In this case I would suggest to add documentation to this functions first to 
get people the chance to actually know how to use them.

Eike

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